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aol has 1st ever drop in subscribers

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Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
This is why pyramid schemes only work for the early members: eventually you run out of suckers.
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gerald levine = biggest sucker ever
 
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Everyone knows that it's better with the butterfly...
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if some guy in a leotard came up to me while i was chillin' in the shack with my homies and tuned off my NWA i'd cap him
 
35 million subscribers doesn't necessarily equal 35 million paying subscribers. Doesn't AOL give people 1,000 free hours initially? I wonder how many of those 35 million subscribers are people in that first free month? Could it be as high as 5 million? :Q

Oh, to answer your question OS, yes, AOL, does still suck. AOL believes in overwhelming their users with a boat-load of information when they first sign on. Ugh! Then, their Internet pipeline is sooooooo slow - it takes many pages a long, long time to load. No, I don't have AOL, but have done enough work on the PCs of others who do have it.
 
AOL, there's no time to join a company that lost over 100 billion this past year... and hasn't made profit since... DID THEY EVER??
 
PREPARE FOR THE EXODUS!

HAHA those asses had it coming. We have roadrunner at home but my dad keeps AOL's 'bring your own access' plan cuz he HATES the idea of changing email addresses. So we buy a new laptop and I decide to upgrade dad to AOL 8.0. Go to the site, download the software, install. Then it sits and takes SIX minutes (no joke...on a P4 1.7ghz laptop!) to find the modem and ethernet adapter (drivers already installed in WinXP of course.) It asks us if we would like modem access, TCP/IP/LAN access, or 'Home Network' access. WTF? Isn't 'home network' the same as LAN? Oh well, we choose the usual TCP/IP. Start logging in...whoops, 'AOL is unable to find a network connection'. Weird, we just dl'ed this piece of sh!t from aol.com. Try turning on IE...WTF? AOL screwed up XP's network settings. Rerun XP network configuration wizard. Rerun AOL. Again AOL screws up. Rerun XP net config wizard, and use AOL in 'home network' mode. Still no go. And yet again it screws up XP's network settings! Uninstall. Install AOL 7.0. Setup for TCP/IP, and it works fine...

AOL 8.0 is a joke...
 
That's awesome. I think AOL is the sux. As the netzero commercial says "it's the same internet". I feel bad for anybody paying $20 to access the net over dialup.
 
I don't think it is really a trend of people switching to MSN or NetZero, but rather people realizing that in paying about $24 a month for something slow they might aswell just pay the 40 and get something much faster . Web pages have more to load, the java programs are larger, everything is just growing, it is becoming so that it is a waste of your time, and frustrating to have dial-up.

Just my thoughts.

Emrys
 
Originally posted by: Emrys
I don't think it is really a trend of people switching to MSN or NetZero, but rather people realizing that in paying about $24 a month for something slow they might aswell just pay the 40 and get something much faster . Web pages have more to load, the java programs are larger, everything is just growing, it is becoming so that it is a waste of your time, and frustrating to have dial-up.

Just my thoughts.

Emrys
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I had to use 56k the other day again and I can say that if I was a person used to it and then I came upon broadband one day I'd switch immediately. It's so freaking slow and $24/month for it is outrageous.

 
Most dialup ISPs in my region charge maybe $7-9usd/month for unlimited 56k dialup with multiple email accounts, etc etc etc. It's definitely not worth it to pay $15-25/month for POS AOL. I wouldn't do that.
 
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